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DeepSeek Harness

https://www.deepseek.com/en/harness/
59•Kuyawa•2h ago

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Kuyawa•2h ago
I just installed DeepSeek Harness for MacOS and it's a beast. The same great harness as before but now is an app you just click on your dock to run

All settings and workspaces are transferred so you don't lose anything, the only thing it lacks is a way to increase/decrease font size with cmd + and cmd - so I'll work on a plugin for that

I can't be happier

Edit: Asked DSH for a plugin to increase/decrease font and it delivered. Love it. Then asked for a plugin to ring a bell on questions and tasks finished, of course it delivered flawlessly. The same plugin architecture, extensible by the same AI

johng•1h ago
Can you elaborate? What's better about it vs. other harnesses? What can it do that others can't?

I'm not sure what you mean by it's a beast.

Kuyawa•1h ago
All LLMs work the same to a certain degree, it's a matter of personal preference, token cost and customization. I asked DSH to build a news aggregator for me and it built a really nice app from 30 news sources via rss feeds for less than 50 cents and presto, reading tech news has never been so gratifying
pylotlight•35m ago
literally every harness can do that tho, that doesn't really answer the question.
zarmin•22m ago
i read somewhere that it can write a plugin to change its font size
cjbprime•17m ago
It has particularly good observability (the ability to see the full content of every prompt and response and tool call) compared to other harnesses, that's the main thing that stood out to me.
ycui7•1h ago
you do can change font size in settings, but not with keyboard shortcut. for some reason, they decided to limit font size to 17 max.
Kuyawa•1h ago
Do the same as I did, ask it to develop a plugin to increase/decrease font and you will see results in one single task, dsh-zoom as a plugin, restart and done
scuppernong•1h ago
https://frontierharness.org/ allegedly this is on the Pareto frontier, though I don't know how good of a benchmark this really is. it seems to focus on one-shot type tasks, whereas the real utility of one harness over another seems to make itself known in long running tasks.

also this is a very limited static snapshot with one model as backend, I wish there were more consistently refreshed and diversified harness benchmarks.

jamienk•1h ago
My suspicion is that getting a big binary with full permissions is the goal here. Harnesses will only run their companion models and will demand your Contacts list.
neya•1h ago
> I'm DeepSeek Harness, an open-source harness from DeepSeek built on Cordis's “everything is a plugin” architecture.
webXL•1h ago
Sigh. Yet another harness...

I'd probably check it out if it was actually called 'YAH Harness' and not [insert Chinese AI lab here] Harness

Zambyte•16m ago
You don't have to use it. I don't use it. I still think it's really cool, and I've been thinking of trying to take ideas from it and integrate it into my own workflow. In particular, the session visualization tooling.
quyleanh•1h ago
DSH still in preview but works flawlessly. Update also very quick.

With the preview of official app, hope team will add remote connection soon.

Scarbutt•24m ago
You can run it in server mode according to the docs.

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/blob/master/...

https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness/blob/master/...

ElProlactin•38m ago
I wish there was a tool I could use to share my documents, activity, etc. directly with the world's major intelligence agencies.

A marketplace, where the different intelligence agencies could evaluate the value of my digital stuff and then offer me something (like a $5 gift card to Olive Garden), would be really nice.

kvirani•30m ago
I don't get it
rapind•16m ago
I think they’re saying they would rather use Muse or Dots.
postsantum•26m ago
Yes! A real marketplace of ideas with automatic matching, like you can see who has the same ideas as you

Reminds me of some magic device from childrens book, don't remember its name, was like a glass ball where you could see what other people are up to

tobi_bsf•6m ago
The chinese will go and suck in all of your laptop and everything else from your network when you install this ;)
Kuyawa•36m ago
The original title was "DeepSeek Harness Desktop app for MacOS and Windows"

This new title says nothing, we already know deepseek harness from before, this is a new product, an installable app worth differentiating from just "DeepSeek Harness"

ssivark•28m ago
This page doesn't emphasize the cordis architecture [1], but that's the most exciting thing about this -- not just yet another harness. It has the potential to make this into something like the emacs of harnesses! I think this might be particularly potent for long-running agents.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25512

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